Author: Mark Joseph StegmaierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Originally published: Kent, Ohio: Kent State Press, c1996. With new pref.
Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850
Author: Mark Joseph StegmaierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Originally published: Kent, Ohio: Kent State Press, c1996. With new pref.
Border Dilemmas
Author: Anthony P. MoraPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822347970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
A historical analysis of the conflicting ideas about race and national belonging held by Mexicans and Euro-Americans in southern New Mexico during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth.
Prologue to Conflict
Author: Holman HamiltonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813131917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Author: Richard Griswold del CastilloPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Signed in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico and gave a large portion of Mexico’s northern territories to the United States. The language of the treaty was designed to deal fairly with the people who became residents of the United States by default. However, as Richard Griswold del Castillo points out, articles calling for equality and protection of civil and property rights were either ignored or interpreted to favor those involved in the westward expansion of the United States rather than the Mexicans and Indians living in the conquered territories.
Line in the Sand
Author: Rachel St. JohnPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691156131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.
New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912
Author: Robert W. LarsonPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826329470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state? Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organized style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory’s extraordinary six-decade struggle for statehood. This book is no mere chronology of political moves, however. It is the history of a turbulent frontier state, sweeping into the current almost every colorful character of the territory. Not only politicians but ranchers, outlaws, soldiers, newspapermen, Indians, merchants, lawyers, and people from every walk of life were involved. This is a book for the reader who is interested in any aspect of southwestern territorial history.
Texas
Author: Rupert N. RichardsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315509806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Written in a narrative style, this comprehensive yet accessible survey of Texas history offers a balanced, scholarly presentation of all time periods and topics.From the beginning sections on geography and prehistoric people, to the concluding discussions on the start of the twenty-first century, this text successfully considers each era equally in terms of space and emphasis.
History and Government of New Mexico
Author: John H. VaughanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: United Holdings Group
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The U.S. War with Mexico
Author: Ernesto ChavezPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319242790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The U.S. war with Mexico was a pivotal event in American history, it set crucial wartime precedents and served as a precursor for the impending Civil War. With a powerful introduction and rich collection of documents, Ernesto Ch‡vez makes a convincing case that as an expansionist war, the U.S.-Mexico conflict set a new standard for the acquisition of foreign territory through war. Equally important, the war racialized the enemy, and in so doing accentuated the nature of whiteness and white male citizenship in the U.S., especially as it related to conquered Mexicans, Indians, slaves, and even women. The war, along with ongoing westward expansion, heightened public debates in the North and South about slavery and its place in newly-acquired territories. In addition, Ch‡vez shows how the political, economic and social development of each nation played a critical role in the path to war and its ultimate outcome. Both official and popular documents offer the events leading up to the war, the politics surrounding it, popular sentiment in both countries about it, and the war’s long-term impact on the future development and direction of these two nations. Headnotes, a chronology, maps and a selected bibliography enrich student understanding of this important historical moment.